001 ☪ open } { it's robot flu season

[hackedhistory]

Who: Zari Tomaz + YOU
Where: The dorms.
When: Over the sickness event.
Rating PG
What: Zari's caught the robot flu and she dislikes it strongly.

[Starters in comments.]

Comments

[hackedhistory]

[She gives a small shrug.]

A doctor could at least help identify if there's any consistency in symptoms. We may not be able to cure the disease, but we may be able to manufacture something that could make things easier.

[foundafamily]

[He nods and tries to keep a tight smile on his face. Seeing all sorts of diseases ravage his neighbors in the tenements hasn't exactly filled him with confidence about relief for sickness. But it'd be embarrassing to get too worried--he's probably tipped his hand too much already.

Jokingly:]

People'll always come up with something, but whether it works is another story. I don't know what time you're from, but some people thought peppers'd cure the Spanish flu.

[He was a young kid back then, but he remembers stuff like that being all over the place.]

[hackedhistory]

Yeah, I'm from 2042, and we still haven't cured H1N1. That flu is a beast.

[To say the least. IDK maybe canon will joss me for this later, but medical advancements didn't really seem to be on ARGUS' priority list unless metahumans were involved.]

[foundafamily]

[She's from around Hank's time, then. It's a relief to see not everyone in that time is as strange as that guy.

He makes a noise that's something like a laugh.]

More than a century, huh? That really fills me with confidence.

[hackedhistory]

You'd be surprised how much people fight the push of progress sometimes.

[She's looking at you, antivaxxers.]

A lot of times it's two steps forward, five steps back.

[foundafamily]

[There are quite a few things that come to mind to bolster her point once she says it, though his mind doesn't jump right to sickness.]

I guess that's one thing that'll never change... But with medicine too? Seriously?

[The flu isn't a particularly hot-button issue for him, but he knows people who would've killed for a cure for TB, for example.]

[hackedhistory]

Well, some medicine is getting better!

[Which is a good thing. But at the same time -]

But at the same time, the illnesses get smarter too. As our medicine evolves, they evolve, so people still get sick.